And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie star.

I used to tour a little bit with Jim Carrey and help him out on his first Showtime special.

I'm just trying to be truthful and collaborate with people who have interesting things to say.

Penn [Jillette] and Teller and I get along very well. We can call each other and say, "I'm working on this classic effect. Please, I'd like to do it for a while." We'll all respect it. There are people we don't get along with, but mostly there is a respect amongst the group.

If the movie's not communicating, it's not working.

Any music star would be singing about his lost love. A movie would be about a relatable incident; it wasn't an untouchable magic dragon box. It was something that people could relate to, and when I vanished a girl, it would be a story about a girl that left me, or a cutting into pieces would be a date with a magician. I wouldn't just vanish a girl in a shower, I would do the shower scene from Psycho [1960] with a [Alfred] Hitchcock cameo.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.